"The fact this police department singled out a particular group makes it even more odious, "he said, adding that the only way to discourage police departments from framing people to juice numbers was for politicians to ease up on demands to bring crime down.
This low-blow tactic is ever tempting to someone or other in public life, which makes Congress's release this week of some of the more odious McCarthy archives a welcome renewal of cautionary history.
It makes Jackson all the more impressive.
Other demands — from dismantling the more odious police forces to freeing thousands of political prisoners — may be beyond his purview in a landscape where the military, in almost uncontested fashion, makes the decisions.
And the more odious the crime, the more ideal the culprit, the more legitimate your hatred.
Mr. Mayer is one of the more odious villains in film history, while Welles was a genius, a bon viveur, one of the greatest storytellers and tragic heroes ever made.
The schadenfreude sports fan, therefore, has little choice but to wish ill upon the more odious villains, with gusto.
ONE of the more odious things about modern presidential politics is the attempt to create "character" by injecting what screenwriters like to call "backstory".
Victorian culture implicitly equated epilepsy with bad character – Dickens's portrayal of Monks in Oliver Twist as a thoroughly odious individual was made all the more hideous by his seizures.
Although he could have built 20 or more floors, Astor held it to 7, earning the praise of The Times, which observed that comparing Platt's building to the surviving half of the hotel "makes this old remnant more odious".
